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Kate,

If that is the case, a courtesy email or notification on the forum advising people to that effect, would have been much appreciated. Unfortunately, this information has come too late for me.

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I have just discovered that even though MCFX Pro is, and has been for some time only $79 / month, because I signed up when it was $99 a month TS Support kept charging me $99. Basically, I was being overcharged $20/month for several months. When the subscription rate changed, they did not alter my ra...

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I do have Nortons AV, and honestly, I would not run any PC without some sort of AV protection. When I checked the utilisation, MCFX was at 90+% but the AV didn't even register so I don't think it was really doing anything. If it was scanning something I'd imagine to see some CPU hits on it.

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That's the point - I don't need 7. I'd prefer 4.

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Join the club. I had the exact same problem and the only fix was to hack the registry to change it back to port 8000 (FXCM data). Because you couldn't actually start the app, you couldn't change the port settings as they only take hold once you start the app, change the port and then re-start the ap...

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Well, now it decides to move. Thanks for costing me 20 pips!!!

So, FXCM feed stalls (yet again) can't get to the Gain feed (see my other post) what is a trader supposed to do???

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I can't trade like this

What the hell happened now????

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I am running 2 instances of MCFX - one basic and one pro. Neither can now get to port 9000 (Gain feed). This only happened when I restarted the charts. It says the firewall is stopping the software connecting. Well, I can tell you it's no firewall at my end. I'm using 2 different PC and I checked bo...

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Just thought I'd add some more info, I had to refresh a GBPUSD chart so I thought I'd time how long it took. It's 2 charts in one (one hidden) 2400 bars of 240min data and 700 bars of 960min data. Not a huge amount of data by any means. It took just under 3 minutes from when the chart went blank to ...

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On my charts the price scale is 4 decimal places e.g. 1.9650 but the little "bar" that indicates current price has 7 decimal places e.g. 1.9650000. I've looked everywhere but can't see a place I can change that. It's more just annoying than anything else. Is there any way to change it so it only sho...

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I am now making some changes to a GBPUSD 5min chart and as it's reloading (well, saying "Establishing connection" for the last 5 minutes...wait, it finally came up...hooray) and it now says FXCM too, despite the fact that under my preference options I have port 9000, and it has been that way through...

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I have a few saved templates, yet when I want to apply it to my EURUSD 5 min chart, the one I want isn't there. I'm in the middle of my trading session so I don't want to restart the app and / or my PC considering I'll then be offline for at least half an hour (if not more) while MCFX decides to loa...

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I am using the Beta MCFX Pro. I have set it up to login to port 9000 (Gain feed from what I gather) yet I opened a EURUSD 5 min chart and it states on the top of the window FXCM. What gives? Is it Gain or is it FXCM?

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TS Support, I know you must be sick to death of me going on about this but could you please, please, please, look at doing something to speed the load time of charts in your next upgrade. MCFX locked up on me and I had to restart it, 25 minutes ago, and not one chart window has come up yet. So far M...

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Terminal, when you figure out, could you let us know...LOL

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Is there documentation available on how to use the back testing? If so, can you point me in the right direction.

Thanks...

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Hope so. There's only a couple of weeks left in this month as it is.

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Glad I have no internet at home at the moment

I was hoping problems like that were things of the past. Did anyone try the Gain feed? The FXCM feed has been notoriously unreliable so I'm wondering if anyone has had the chance to compare the two yet?

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That's cool. Like many other things in trading some have seen things / used things and some haven't. For example, in futures I have used tic (price) charts, (proper) gann swing charts. You can even have volume based bar charts, but I've never used them. But you are correct in your assumptions becaus...

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Kate, thanks for the response but I was hoping for something a bit more definative. I was told a pro beta version would (should) have been available a few weeks back. How "likely" is "most likely"? Surely the part of the program that controls the connections is pretty similar in the basic and pro ve...

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Thanks Terminal. Hopefully the moderator(s) won't be upset

I've downloaded it and will have a read tonight. Might PM you if I have any questions.

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Guys, I share all your frustrations.

All we can do is keep at them in the hope to get these problems sorted.

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Even though I have had no internet for the last week, I am disappointed to hear that these problems are persisting. MCFX - you really need to resolve this permanently. Your customers (me included) can not keep relying on an inherently unreliable system. Trading requires accurate, timely data. Withou...

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Guys, I realise you keep saying that you see no reason for an offline mode but I still think it is a very valid suggestion, and this last week has really brought that forward for me. Basically I have had no internet for the last week (at home) so I have not been able to trade. Problem is I can't eve...

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No problems Terminal. I often thought if anyone used tick (or price compression) charts in FX. You're the second person I know of. I think I'll have to have a good look at them now

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Guys, I've been beta testing a version of MCFX Basic and it's been pretty good, both on price accuracy i.e. no missing "bits", no bizzare gaps and only the occasional lockup (which yes, one of which was an ISP problem on my end) but overall a huge improvmement over the current version. What I'd like...

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Price compression or tick bars or what ever you'd like to call them have been around for ages in "future" land. It's just seems that MCFX is one of the first FX only charting packages that provides it. I personally haven't used them much. I'd be curious to hear from you as to how useful you find the...

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I use MCFX, MT and Oanda for charts and EFX as my broker and nort one of them has exactly the same price as the others. Sometimes there's as much as 10 pips out. Like farmer said, no central exchange so everyone can just make their own price. Only way to get the exact same price as your broker is to...

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Lets hope so Farmer.

Sebastian (vsatrader) sorry to see you go

I must admit main reason I am still here is that I use a few indicators written in easy language and I didn't want to pay $295 / month for real TS.

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Farmer, thanks for the info but I have abut 30 charts, and I really don't want to recreate them all.

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I think above all else, with my recent experience with MCFX Pro, accuracy and RELIABILITY of the software AND the data feed are the most important features to me. Please address these issues as a matter of HIGH PRIORITY.

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I wouldn't say things are fixed. I am currently looking at 4 charts that show the last 24hrs was only 2 hours long.

Come on MCFX. Lift your game. Unless you can improve reliability you will loose customers. A FX trader without charts might as well be blind!

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I hope you're not paying too much for the data feed from FXCM because it is far and away the least reliable, most crappy price feed I have come across. While I wait patiently for MCFX to become a stable, reliable, accurate charting package I keep a couple of "backup" charts running just to be sure. ...

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Guys,

I am trying to use the currentsessionMS function but MCFX doesn't recognise it. It seems to be built into TS. Any help would be appreciated.

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Guys, I share your pain. I had all the exact same problems you described. Until MCFX is "stable" and "realiable" I still use MT as a back up. Doesn't have all the indicators I need but at least I can see what price is doing and where it's going.

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I've had the same problem last night (AUEST). Good news is that the beta version I am testing didn't have these problems. Hopefully sign of things to come.

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Another thing that would be nice is to be able to select a number of months / weeks / days back for the data range rather than having to figure out how many bars it is. Maybe making it an additional selection option to the "bars back" and "from date" options. This would make it so much easier than h...

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Stanley, that's the way I understood it to so why then are they still appearing? I realise it shouldn't affect any studies but it just looks odd.

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When are you planning to add the 5 minute resolution? Just curious as I use 5, 15 and 60 minute charts a lot so that would be a great help.

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Thanks Stanely. I used your recommendation and it works well.

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I have 4 monitors on my PC and I'd like to be able to use MCFX on at least 2, preferably 3 of them. Is there a way to achieve this with MCFX and if so, what would be the best way.

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Kate, sorry for sounding confused, so what exactly does the "show empty periods" check box do / affect?

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Sounds similar to my "show / not show" session breaks problem I posted a little while back. Do you find that the breaks are there regardless of wether "show session breaks" is checked or unchecked?

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Kate,

I hope it is sooner rather than later, considering there's nothing there from FXCM at the moment (see Charts not updating post). Please make this a priority.

BTW - I am now testing the Beta that is supposed to fix the connection issues. I'll post my results on this forum.

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I'd like to double terminal7's request. Some of us would like to see what is really happening in the market!!

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I'll run it in parallel to the old MCFX (on a different PC of course) and let you know how it goes.

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Kate,

Do you have any idea as to when this new version will be available? I am really desperate to at least have these nagging connection problems sorted out. Just last night the connection died at the most inopportune moment and it is now literally costing me money.

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Kate, I have reduced the back data for the lower time frames and that has offered a marginal improvement. However, I have occasions where I do require that amount of data, as you guessed, for back testing, I will definetly put my hand up for a beta version that addresses the reconnect issues. I hate...

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Kate, thanks for the feedback. So, what you are saying is that the download is (potentially) quick but the extrapolation / calculation is what is slowing it all down?

Am I correct in my understanding?

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Here are three examples of the gaps I am talking about. 2 daily and one 4 hour chart. The gaps on the 240 are a little harder to see so I stuck some arrow on there to point them out.

Any feedback would be greatly appreciated.

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Alex, Reading the history on this thread and what I am seeing regularly, why are you stuck with FXCM as the data provider. They would have to have some of the dodgiest data going. Compared to my 3 other sources, the data you guys get is far and away the worst - gaps all over the place. Are there any...

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Alex, Under what conditions are you getting 10 sec chart loads? I can honestly say that I can never get anywhere near that sort of performance. Even just 12 months of 4hr data (less than 3000 bars) takes considerably longer than that. I still think that storing the data locally would be a much bette...

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Guys, I hate to sound like a broken record (or scratched CD for those not familiar with vinyl) but the same old issues keep coming to annoy me, an now even more so as I am trading LIVE. The first and by far the most annoying is that MCFX keeps loosing it's connection and can't reconnect. For a littl...

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Kate, I'll post some tonight. I had connection issues (they're back again) with MCFX last night so I didn't get the chance last night.

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Guys,

One feature that would be really usefull is the Fibonacci expansion (not retracement as you already have - which in itself is useful). If you're not sure what I mean you can check out how it works on MT4 and TS

Cheers,
Aussiefx

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I was wondering if someone could help (again). Even though I have "un-checked" the show empty period (or what ever it's exactly called i can't remember right now) I have gaps in my daily and 4hr charts where the weekends fall. It's a real pain on the daily as that means I have a gap between every 5t...

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Note where price and the MA are relative to each other on these two screen shots.

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I have a problem where an indicator (very simple MA) I use with no problems on many. many currency pairs but doesn't work properly on YEN crosses. The problem is that when I plot the MA but then change the size of the chart window or the price scaling the position of the indicator moves around all o...

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I'd have to agree with Dof. Storing data locally would have several advantages. First, I too have really, really slow load times even with only 3 workspaces. (I PMed Alex the workspaces last week). I have a 512/128 ADSL and it takes sometimes 10 minutes to load everything up. Second, I commute to wo...

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As I write this I am yet again waiting for MCFX to "reconnect". At 17:15 EST it lost it's connection, again , and could not reconnect, again and yet I managed to jump on the net right away and post this...hmmm...I think it's fair to say the problem was not at this end. Well, it's now 9 MINUTES and c...

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Alex, I'll post the screen shots over the weekend (I can't from work, where I am writing this, as I can't access MCFX from here due to proxy / firewall problems). Just been too busy with other things. One thing that hasn't helped are the ongoing problems I'm having with MCFX. Again last night it gav...

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Look, I realise the Democrats won something or other in the US but is that any reason for EURUSD and USDCHF to gap 40 odd pips?? I checked 3 other platforms I have access to and yours is the only one with this massive gap. What gives? (Glad I'm not trading here :!: ) On my 240min chart, there are bl...

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A couple of things I'd like to see - The ability to authenticate through a proxy so it can be used from more places, like my office. An "offline" mode so I can log in and look at charts without having to connect to the data feed Ability to connect to different data feeds, but I'm assuming that is wh...

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Everyone - check your subscription rate!!!

price stuck at 1.9627...

Can't get to gain feed - port 9000

Timed example...GBPUSD

Just a question this time re the price line

Additional info...

Me again...another problem / question.

Using port 9000 yet EURUSD says FXCM - Why?

Speed of loading...

Disappointed...

A great reason for an "offline" or cache mode!!!

New (reliable) version ETA???

Accuracy and reliability

Not exactly fixed is it...

"Quality", or lack there of, of FXCM data

easylanguage incompatability

MCFX and multiple monitors - question

Time frame???

Some "gappy" samples

Why oh why FXCM...

Same old issues - connection, load time - any progress????

Fibonacci extension

Gaps between bars in daily / 4hr charts

Some EURJPY examples..

Screwy YEN charts...help!!

More issues...

What's with the data feed...and other issues

Additional "feature" request